Tex Jude Gérard Albert

Apprentice Co-Creative Presencing, Trusting Synergistic Emerging Coherences
Nurture #BioregionalRegeneration for #ThrivingPlanet & #FlourishingHumankind

[Tex Jude Gérard Albert @TexAlbert]

Soul-Love Rhapsody
(TJGA - 26/04/19, Québec)
In the sublime symphony
of the dynamic of soul-love
in Co-Creative Presence,
honed are the senses
to see beauty,
to appreciate good
and do right;
with gratitude for the lived,
enthusiasm in the present
and confidence facing the future.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Amazon is worth $2 trillion. But it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its’ trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. 

We collected every dollar they owe the people of this city — and will continue to hold them accountable. In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. 

No company — no matter how large or powerful — is above the law.

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

UN agencies continue to step up support in the face of the Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo, providing medical supplies, equipment and other vital assistance.

https://t.co/RPOs2CJ3ny

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

Yes, the Ben-Gvir video is disgraceful. But that's not the issue. The (obvious) issue is that if that's how nonviolent European protesters are treated in public, any person with a brain can imagine how Palestinians are treated behind closed doors. *That* is the real scandal.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE

There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"

Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?

Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!

And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.

Francesca Albanese is that someone.

She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."

Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.

And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.

Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.

There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.

There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."

There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”

Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.

She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".

Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.

What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.

These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.

Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.

We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."

Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.

So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.

A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.

Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.

Let us stand with her.

Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.

[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

[Tex Jude Gérard Albert @TexAlbert]

Soul-Love Rhapsody
(TJGA - 26/04/19, Québec)
In the sublime symphony
of the dynamic of soul-love
in Co-Creative Presence,
honed are the senses
to see beauty,
to appreciate good
and do right;
with gratitude for the lived,
enthusiasm in the present
and confidence facing the future.

[Maryam Malik @MuskanM87817634]

Earth has 2 lungs: one’s blue, one’s green. We know what we have to to do to restore both. All that’s required is action.
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateAction #EarthDay
#biodiversity #rewilding #ProtectOceans #ClimateActionNow #ClimateJustice #environnement

[Tex Jude Gérard Albert @TexAlbert]

"Somehow there has to be a way to transform our old models of conflict resolution and diplomacy, because something is clearly not working any more!" @Merle_Lefkoff @KosmosJournal
#imagine #ecozoic #DeeptimePerspective @deeptimenetwork @IMAGINEzine @IofCUSA @UPEACE @unityearth1

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇺🇸🇵🇸 American actor Joaquin Phoenix on Gaza: "There's no justification for fucking children starving, starving to death... You don't have to understand geopolitics or anything like that just to get that"

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people – and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

There are 350 CHILDREN in Israeli Prison

Why is no one talking about these kids?

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Emily Dickinson, born 195 years ago today, on love and loss https://t.co/fjiFc5wvvH

[Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom]

Israel has barred international media from entering Gaza since October 2023, despite a longstanding petition seeking access to the territory, brought by journalists and supported by CPJ. On Sunday, the Israeli Supreme Court gave the government an extension in responding to the petition, the ninth such delay since the case was filed in September 2024.

Sara Qudah, @CPJMENA Regional Director, told the @nytimes the ban on international journalists is “a deliberate barrier to accountability.”

Read more ⤵️
https://t.co/4CZEh8MxJB

📷: Jack Guez/AFP

[Richard Hétu @richardhetu]

Victoire démocrate dans un autre château fort républicain https://t.co/KsXBTGXAOg

[Kari Joys MS @KariJoys]

Do things with so much #Love..

#JoyTrain #Joy #Love #MentalHealth #Mindfulness #Mindset #Blessed #Quote #WednesdayThoughts #WednesdayMotivation #WednesdayWisdom #WellnessWednesday RT @Dianne__LadyD

[GlobalActionPW @GlobalActionPW]

In UN Security Council on the situation in Afghanistan and the status of @UNAMAnews, @Denmark_UN cites gaps between global human rights norms and lived realities which are on display daily in Afghanistan. Rights violations impede both prosperity and sustained peace.

[Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin]

I am on the Senate floor to condemn ICE’s violent arrests of both immigrants and U.S. citizens. https://t.co/t2Gt966Q7K

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest and the Montgomery bus boycott, a key moment in the fight against U.S. segregation. Historian @JeanneTheoharis says there was nothing inevitable about the success of the protest.

[ONU Info @ONUinfo]

En #RDC, la flambée des violations dessinent une carte de la terreur

@MONUSCO | @UNHumanRights

https://t.co/JdKPRXla9d

[Kari Joys MS @KariJoys]

#Joy is a net of #Love..

#JoyTrain #Joy #Love #Quote #Kindness #MentalHealthMatters #Mindfulness #IAM #IDWP #kjoys00 #Blessed #Quotes #Mindset #TuesdayMorning #TuesdayThoughts #TuesdayMotivation